“I was involved in the process like choosing the director and making sure what kind of message needs to be conveyed to the youth and the elderly,” Jeev Milkha Singh, a movie buff himself, had told. His son, the Indian golfer Jeev Milkha Singh was involved in the developmental stages.
The movie sourced its material from Milkha Singh’s autobiography, which he co-wrote with his daughter. “I was also lucky to meet his family, who are very humble too.” He was in no hurry to get on with work and you learn a lot from that,” he said. “And Milkha ji took his time to speak to them, ask about their disciplines, motivate them and answer their questions. There were a few other athletes training at the grounds and they walked up to him to seek his blessings. “I remember an incident when he had flown down to Mumbai to watch me train. “He is a very down-to-earth, hospitable, and loving person,” Farhan Akhtar said about the ‘Flying Sikh’. Sport is incidental to that human.”Īnd the most essential thing that worked for the endearing vibe of the film was the warm nature of the protagonist himself. “This is not just a sports film, it is a human story.
“His life as an athlete gave me a lot of impetus, cinematic value and energy, which I could not have got from any other story,” Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra had told Livemint in an interview. The director, for his part, believed what made the film tick was the fact it was approached as more than just a sports drama. “I could also sense Rakeysh’s palpable excitement for the film and knew that he would be passionately involved in the project,” said Akhtar.įarhan Akhtar, who won best actor for the movie, was also a natural fit to play the role, having been a runner at school himself. I was moved by it and also inspired at the same time and I felt it was a story that needed to be told,” Farhan Akhtar, who plays Milkha Singh in the film, told. “The story itself was an incredible journey. The fascinating story was one of the primary reasons for it. However, in 2013, it was a fairly novel concept and the success of ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’ set the tone for biopics. Bhaag Milkha Bhaag movie: A gripping human storyīiopics may be the rage in Bollywood now, with several stars like London 2012 bronze-medallist MC Mary Kom, and former Indian cricket team captains Mohammad Azharuddin and MS Dhoni having had movies based on their lives. The movie is based on Milkha Singh’s autobiography, ‘The Race of my Life’.
The Bhaag Milkha Bhaag cast also includes Yograj Singh, father of former Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh. The Bollywood biopic, one of the highest-grossing films at the box office that year, also starred Sonam Kapoor, Divya Dutta and Pavan Malhotra as some of the integral characters in the life of the Indian athlete. It’s why the story of Milkha Singh’s life was brought forth in the 2013 Bollywood biopic, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag.ĭirected by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra and starring Farhan Akhtar in the lead role, the Milkha Singh movie traced the journey of the champion runner from a 12-year-old escaping the horrors of partition to the star athlete he eventually became. However, not many knew much about him beyond that race. His fourth-place finish in the 400m broke the national record and made him one of Indian sport’s early heroes. Everyone in India knows Milkha Singh as the man who came the closest to touching history at the Rome 1960 Olympics.
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